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Topic: Re: Acrobat Reader commandline printing problem (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Prepress and Print, Msg: 20313
From: Bob Greene
Date: 5/10/2001 05:36 PM

This thread seems to be "off topic" for the prepress forum. It seems more
appropriate for a developers forum.

Bob Greene
Lantana

At 2:14 PM -0700 5/10/01, p-pdf-prepress Listmanager wrote:
>From: "Ming"
>I am developing an application where a pdf file is generated (with dynamic
>text and static background image) and printed under Windows without user
>intervention. I am calling the Acrobat Reader with /p /h in command lines
>to get it printed. However, the printing job get extremely big (250k file
>gets 15M), apparently because the acrobat command line always print the
>file using postscript level 1 setting (If I print the file inside Acrobat
>and chose postscript level 2, the job is about 360k).
>
>Is there any solution to get around this problem? A command line option
>(like -level2 in the Unix version of Acrobat Reader), or some other
>printing package.
>
>Thanks!